tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
Sometimes I'm Happy,
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
and Good Time Charlie
On-line samples available at
http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49

Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
reading a paper.
An on-line French-language version of the book
"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
is available at
http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j
An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty

An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious
Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time;
doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to
emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.

The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode
entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
Ben" chiming on Polish local time.

The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.

The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of
time zone humor on 1998-03-14.

Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.

"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of Time
Magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.

The "20 Hours in America" episode of "The West Wing," first aired 2002-09-25,
saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.

"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
"In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
question should have been asked 2002-06-04.

"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492.
Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]."
(Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930,
as noted by Will Fitzerald, wfitzgerald@ameritech.net)

"Good news."
"What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
(Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch")

"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief—like so many myths, such as that
there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'—is false."
(Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)

"I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
when you turn the clocks ahead."
(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)

"Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of "Angel,"
originally aired 2002-02-25)

"I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight."
"Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
("Chandler" and "Joey" in dialog from the episode of "Friends" first
aired 2002-12-05)

"Is that a pertinent fact,
or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It is already tomorrow in Australia."
(Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)